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- View across the Rock River showing part of the Water Power District.
- The Tinker Cottage in Rockford, Illinois.
- The blue line is where the mill race water ran along Race Street before they filled the canal in.
- Location of the old Woodward building at 250 Mill Street in the Water Power District(red dot).
- Woodward Governor Company's Hydraulic Turbine Water Wheel Governor advertisement.
- Precision. The Governing Principle.
- The Original Rockford Red Heel sock
- The Nelson Knitting Company sock patent number 304,817.
- The Woodward Company's state-of-the-art manufacturing building in 1953.
- The John S. Barns Company history advertisement in 2017.
- The Rockford Brewery office building in 2013.
- A very nice looking vintage 1870 s house next to the Rockford Brewery
- A restored victorian house next to the Rockford Brewery property
- Driving past a victorian carriage house next to the RKFD Brewery in Rockford, Illinois.
- The Rockford carriage house for horse drawn carriages from the late 1800 s era